Sentences with phrase «large island world»

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One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world by trading volume, it is owned by a British Virgin Islands company and does not have a head office, Reuters reported in September.

Importantly, the payment difficulties do not stem from oil revenues, but largely from tourism and financial activity, as those are Dubai's chief industries (Dubai is home to the tallest building and the largest man - made islands in the world, for example).

What they have constructed, these past thirty years, is not a globalised economy, but the world archipelago of capitalist islands - large or small - where they have concentrated world scientific and technological capacity (more than 92 % of world R&D expenditure, more than 90 % of patents and of the installed computer capacity...), financial power, symbolic power and media power of the present time.

The island's 500 - year - old Sitka spruce temperate rainforest is also the native habitat of the largest grizzly species in the world — the Kodiak bear, which can grow to an imposing 1,500 pounds.

Goose Island founder John Hall has finally sold his original Clybourn Avenue brewpub to Anheuser - Busch InBev, five years after the world's largest beer company purchased Goose Island's commercial production business, according to the Chicago Tribune.

We got to see hops in action at a recent trip to Goose Island's fields at Elk Mountain Farms, the largest contiguous hop farm in the world.

The Deck at Island Gardens will be the only restaurant in Miami where superyacht owners can moor at Deep Harbour and dine with the world's largest yachts as the backdrop.

Island Gardens is a next generation mixed - use development, home to a superyacht marina that today accommodates up to 50 of the world's largest yachts.

The «Tail of the Whale,» a par - 3 hole on Jack Nicklaus» Pacifico course, which has the largest natural island green in the world.

Belize has the world's second - largest barrier reef and a long strand of 450 mostly pristine islands — called cayes — some of which are bordered by mangrove swamps or by soft sand beaches.

In the role of schoolmaster for the moment was General Bradley Gaylord, distinguished soldier in two world wars, currently chairman of the board of the Madison Fund, cutthroat practitioner of a racy version of English croquet (pronounced «croaky») to which he has drawn numerous addicts among neighbors on Cape Cod and the winter resort island of Antigua, B.W.I., and — not least among a variegation of accomplishments in a world of large affairs — amateur chef extraordinary.

The world's largest sand - dune island is located three hours north of Brisbane, accessible only by ferry and four - wheel drive vehicle.

The second largest island is home to what some believe are the best beaches in the world, as well as Humpback whales who migrate off Maui «s shores every winter.

The Georgian Bay area offers such delights as the world's longest freshwater beach... the largest freshwater island (and the largest lake on a freshwater island)... not to mention the best year - round adventure and activities in Ontario.

New York's chairman of energy and finance, Richard Kauffman, will exclude himself from meetings with the world's largest offshore wind - energy developer about a wind farm off Long Island because of an investment he has in a Goldman Sachs subsidiary that owns a large stake in the company.

Watching the last barge dump its load, Mayor Giuliani said, «As Staten Island continues to thrive and grow, its residents can take pleasure in knowing that the world's largest landfill has taken on its last shipment.

The world's largest flag states (including Liberia, Panama, Bahamas, Marshall Islands) have already signed up.

The mostly abandoned Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, Long Island, was once the site of the world's largest hospital.

The strong tides around these islands have led the European Union - funded European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to use Orkneys» waters as the world's largest testbed for a renewable energy source that has been stalled for years: tidal power.

Terrell has been doing archaeological and anthropological research in this coastal region of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world, since 1990.

Habitat conversion and fragmentation, logging, illegal hunting, fires: The rainforests and wildlife on Borneo, the third largest island in the world, are highly threatened.

The researchers used data collected between 2008 and 2010 from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the world's largest ongoing health survey, from 12 states representing four distinct regions: the Northeast (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island); the Midwest (Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska); the West (Wyoming); and the South (Delaware, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia).

«Falkland Islands basin shows signs of being among world's largest craters.»

Months of warning signs from Mauna Loa, on Hawaii's Big Island, prompted the U.S. Geological Society to recently start releasing weekly updates on activity at the world's largest active volcano.

The world's largest lizard, Komodo dragons live on five small islands in Indonesia.

12 Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island in New York, which closed in 2001, is the world's largest city dump.

But in the Galapagos Islands the fate of this lowly marine invertebrate is the linchpin of a crisis that conservationists believe could threaten the second largest marine reserve in the world.

Their destination: a dusty crater on the world's largest uninhabited island — the closest thing we have to Mars on Earth.

The world's largest river island will disappear within the next few decades from erosion by the mighty Brahmaputra River, scientists say.

The Christmas Island pipistrelle is no more, and the world's largest antelope is at risk, according to the latest update to the Red List of Threatened Species

Traveling by helicopter from the main American base of McMurdo Station on Ross Island to the Dry Valleys, researchers fly over a portion of the Ross Ice Shelf and then a corner of the mesmerizing white spread of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is the largest in the world.

«On the other hand, when technologies are economically available to harvest renewable energy, Japan can become one of the energy - rich countries in the world using the large resources of wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energies available among the Japanese islands.»

In a recent published statement, Tomas Kaberger, JREF's executive board chairman, said Japan's renewable energy expansion has provided «a bright future» for the island nation of 127 million people and world's third - largest stand - alone economy.

A recent survey of the marine debris plaguing the island, home to the largest albatross colony in the world, is helping researchers understand the sources of this far - flung pollution.

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21 World's Largest Marine Preserve Created The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument, larger than all U.S. national parks combined...

The region also experienced the highest rates of sea - level rise over the world, indicating large increases in ocean heat content and leading to substantial impacts on small island states in the region.

If the Faroe Islands succeeds in developing a stable energy system that integrates large amounts of renewable energy, not only will the country secure its own economy, it also could light the way toward low - carbon energy solutions around the world.

But off the island's shore, it is under siege from the beautiful, exotic lionfish, which is encroaching on the world's second - largest coral reef.

The forest has become a beloved icon for many island residents and visitors, emerging as a beacon of sustainability for the country and world at large.

There are several subspecies which occur in different world regions, including also the ubiquitous domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus), which has been introduced to every habitable continent and most of the world's larger islands, and has become feral in many of those environments.

In 2012, the Marshall Islands was the third - largest ship registry in the world, covering 2,700 vessels, but today is responsible for a sliver of the world's greenhouse gases.

Solar physicist Göran Scharmer and his colleagues at the Institute for Solar Physics in Stockholm, Sweden, opened the world's second - largest solar telescope in May on the Canary Islands.

The other source of negative sentiment was Rikers Island, the world's largest penal colony.

The fourth largest island in the world, Madagascar is just slightly larger than California but is home to more than 5 percent of all known species of plants and animals.

The French maritime domain is ranked as the second most important in the world, these islands in total holding a large proportion of the world's biodiversity.

In the Luzon Strait, between Taiwan and the Philippine island of Luzon, they can reach up to 170 meters (558 feet) tall and travel several hundred kilometers, making them some of the largest waves in the world.

The scholarship has been established to honour the memory of the late Danielle de St. Jorre, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Environment and Tourism of the Republic of the Seychelles, and a member of the Governing Board of the International Ocean Institute, in consideration of all she did in her short life for the benefit of her country, small island developing states and the world at large.

Josh served as the Chief Scientist for Project Isabela in Galápagos Islands, the world's largest island restoration project.

Cobb and the Georgia Tech team worked with biologist Julia Baum and her team of UVic researchers on Kiritimati Island (also known as Christmas Island), the world's largest coral atoll.